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Yearly Archives: 2017

Sign-ups are available NOW through June 30th SIGN UPGenius HERE  Being a Class Parent is a fun and rewarding way to help your child and their classmates and support our school’s teachers. Responsibilities include:  Organizing back to school night and a beginning of the year parent social  Collecting and managing class dues and arranging for teacher gifts  Planning class parties  Working with your class to staff Franklin Fair volunteer slots  Contributing to the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon in the Spring and  Serving as a teacher-parent liaison as needed. We are thankful for all parent volunteers and will make as many placements as we can based on the priorities you give us on the form, but assignments are on a first come, first serve basis, so GO TO THE LINK TODAY! There can be gaps in coverage for some classes (we look for 3 Class Parents per class) so even if you are on the fence or want to volunteer only if there is a need in your child’s class please sign up and indicate that you’re “willing.” We’ll hold your name in reserve. We’ll be in touch with assignments only after the classrooms are announced […]
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  2017 Summer Reading Challenge Grades 1 and 2  2017 Summer Reading Challenge Grade 3 2017 Summer Reading Challenge Grade 4
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Here are some things to celebrate from the past year. Loreli Stochaj, School Librarian Number of books checked out: 29,200 YEAH!!! Morning Clubs: Green Team, Library Pages, Techies, Gardeners, Maker Madness, Paper Challenges Lunch Time Clubs: Battle of the Books, Coding, Animal Research, Book Clubs, Bee Bots Two Author Visits: Todd Parr (Thanks to a tweet! that won his visit) Audrey Vernick (thank you PTO) Hour of Code Maker Week Book Fair Two Book Swaps! Remember Me Donations – this year we received 75 books from very generous families New BIG glorious rug for all students to enjoy- thank you PTO. Two book carts to be used when classes share resources- thank you PTO. *SEF Grant Related Activities in FLIC: Battle of the Books, Bee Bots, STEAM in the Library using Ozobots and Squishy Circuits Looking forward to 2017-2018…. just so you can start thinking! Battle of the Books for grades 4 and 5- Thanks to the SEF Coding with Bee Bots and Ozobots Making connections between books and singing- Thanks to the SEF And Much Much More!
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Thank you to our generous Franklin community who baked, bought, and volunteered at the bake sale in honor of Detective Tarentino.  The sale was a huge success raising $2,608!!!  But wait, we didn’t stop there.  With a table full of leftovers, we brought them into town and continued the bake sale outside of Starbucks…. raising an additional $1,134.  That makes our grand total donation to the PAL Tarentino family fund = $3,742.  A big thank you to Katie Darcy, Jenny Birch and Sheila Cheney who organized the bake sale at Franklin.  A special thank you to Jessica O’Neill, Melissa Cooper, Alejandra Armijo, Katie Darcy, Line Barlow and Christie Engel who helped extend the bake sale into town.  In the true spirit of Officer Matt we shared the remaining baked goods with the police station, the fire house and the senior housing center.
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Dear Franklin Families, I want to take a moment to thank you for having me as your PTO President this past year! I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know so many more of you and seeing all that the PTO achieved this year thanks to your generosity in volunteer time and donations. This year together the PTO and Franklin Community (teachers included!) made the following happen: – New Falcon Footprints walkways and front yard landscaping (bye, bye mud!) – New Swing sets which added both more color and swings to our playground; New “Franklin” branded benches forthcoming too! – New gym mats to replace the very old ones currently hanging on the walls; New “Franklin” branded mat underneath the stage to bring school spirit -coming end of this summer – Hiring of outside company to help with incredible SHReK the Musical JR! – Emojis invasion for the incredibly successful Franklin Fair which sets us up for a fantastic 2017-2018 school year – Painting of the colorful US Map and games on the blacktop – 4 Assemblies, 2 Authors Visits and monthly Art in the Classroom – Purchase of American Flags for all classrooms, New Book Bags for students, and other items for classrooms – Fun Community Building School Events: 1st Back to School BBQ, Book Fair, Holiday Shop, Movie […]
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The entire Summit community has been devastated by the untimely passing of Detective Matthew Tarentino.  Franklin School is hosting a bake sale this Friday, June 9 at 3:00pm on the front lawn to show our love and support to the Tarentino family.  100% of proceeds will go to the fund created by the Summit PAL. LINK We need bakers/buyers to donate treats and others to donate time to make this bake sale a success.Please sign up using the sign up genius link – SIGN UP GENIUS LINK All goods can be dropped off at school between 2:15 and 2:45 on Friday or earlier on the porch at 52 Blackburn Place. Please send your kids to school with money on Friday to purchase baked items after school. Thank you for your support and thank you Detective Tarentino for your honor, commitment, selflessness and for being an amazing role model for our children.
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Here’s a great opportunity to help create an incredibly meaningful and memorable experience for your child! Join our 5 person leadership team, which will grow to more come fall, and be part of the musical selection and making all the magic happen! Email Sheila at smccraith@hotmail.com this week!
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ALL 5th Graders—  DARE Graduation – May 30th 7:00 in the High School Auditorium. We ask that the following day (5/31) all students wear their DARE shirts or bring their DARE shirts to school. The students have a tradition of signing each others shirts on the day after graduation.  Stay with your children and listen to an inspirational speaker and watch your child graduate.
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One of the biggest wishes we heard as a PTO Board this year and years past was, “more swings please!” We are so excited that careful budgeting and successful fundraisers, thanks to your generous support, allowed the PTO to make the “more swings” wish come true in a big, bright and beautiful way. These new Franklin colored blue and yellow swing sets completely replaced the existing ones allowing us to have more swings in total. Yay! Thanks to Mrs. Mirrione, Rodrigo and Angelo Palumbo for their contributions in making this great addition to our school happen.
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Please join us on Friday, June 2nd at 8:30am in the cafeteria for the final PTO meeting of the year.  We want to thank and celebrate all our volunteers with some breakfast treats and a surprise giveaway.   The incoming PTO Executive Board slate will be voted on. PTO Executive Board Proposed Slate for 2017/2018 President – Christie Engel Vice President – Melissa Madden VP Communications – Rachel Callahan Asst VP Communications – Renata Estupinan Treasurer – Paula Rush Asst Treasurer – Caroline Heyer Volunteer Coordinator – Isabel Ribeiro We hope to see you all there!
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Help Franklin Earn Money with Box Tops! All Box Tops are due by end of day on Friday, June 2, 2017! The CLASS that submits the most in EACH GRADE wins a POPSICLE PARTY! Remember…. *LABEL your baggie/collection sheet with your child’s teacher/class! *Clip Carefully: the expiration date and product code MUST be visible. *Make sure they are NOT EXPIRED! To see a full list of participating products, visit www.boxtops4education.com. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HELPING US COLLECT FREE MONEY FOR FRANKLIN! Email me anytime with questions! Donna Patel dgp212@gmail.com
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Have you been curiously watching these postings and wondering if this job is right for you?  It is!  The VP position shadows the President during the first year and by year two, you’ll have learned everything you need to take the lead.  Get the inside scoop of all we do to help make Franklin a great place for our children!  Get involved and make a difference!  Contact Christie Engel (cbengel@gmail.com) to learn more about this fantastic opportunity.
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Franklin Field Day is loads of Fun!  Help by volunteering to man a station on June 14th!! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050a4ea4ad23a75-volunteer
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A huge thank you to our Franklin Fair leaders, Melissa Madden and Maggie Greene, and their wonderful team* for an amazing and successful fair this past weekend!    The smiles on the “Emojis Everywhere” decorations weren’t the only ones; all the kids were running around smiling, laughing and having a blast at the games, cake walk, rides, photo booth and children’s raffle! Because these ladies and their team stepped up to make sure the fair happened, these smiles will continue throughout the next school year as the fair is the main PTO fundraiser and its success helps to bring great programs to the school and assets to the classrooms. Thank you also to the Franklin community for volunteering at the fair and supporting the fair through your attendance and participation in the silent auction. A big thank you also to Mrs. Mirrione, Ms. Naples and Rodrigo’s team who as always, went above and beyond to help support the PTO’s events. *Team members: Elizabeth Somerlot, Nicole Abbott (Children’s Raffle), Sarah Fitzsimmons, Andrea Davila (Tobon), Christie Engel (Silent Auction), Leah Enthoven, Liz Orben (Tickets), Sarah Vehap (Decorations), Kathy DePhillips, Betsy Flaim (Cake Walk), Katie Blanco, Katie Gaffney, Kristen Gottstein (Birthday Cube), Jenny Hoffman (Games), MaryEliza McEachan (Face Painting), […]
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Some of you may not know this, but in year’s past Franklin has had a musical every other year. This means that historically each child only has one year to be part of the school’s musical (either as a 4th or as a 5th grader). If you would like to see your child have two chances, then we need your help! We have the opportunity to try and have one again next year but to do so, we need 1 more parent to join the core team by the end of May. So far we have three parents who worked on the musical this year so if you join the team, you will not be starting from scratch! It really is an incredible experience for the children, one that I personally would love to see happen next year!! If you are interested, or even just have questions, please email me (Sheila) at smccraith@hotmail.com  
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